燦燦

Chinese

		glorious; bright; brilliant glorious; bright; brilliant; lustrous; resplendent	glorious; bright; brilliant glorious; bright; brilliant; lustrous; resplendent
trad. (燦燦)		燦	燦
simp. (灿灿)		灿	灿

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): càncàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄢˋ ㄘㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caan³ caan³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: càncàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄢˋ ㄘㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: càncàn
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻan⁴-tsʻan⁴
    • Yale: tsàn-tsàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsanntsann
    • Palladius: цаньцань (canʹcanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰän⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: caan³ caan³
    • Yale: chaan chaan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaan³ tsaan³
    • Guangdong Romanization: can³ can³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːn³³ t͡sʰaːn³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tshanH tshanH

Rime
Character	燦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蒼案切
Baxter	tshanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰanH/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	càn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	caan3

Adjective

燦燦

1. (ideophonic) glistening; lustrous

Derived terms

• 光燦燦／光灿灿
• 晶燦燦／晶灿灿
• 白燦燦／白灿灿
• 金燦燦／金灿灿 (jīncàncàn)
• 黃燦燦／黄灿灿

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (燦燦):

• → Japanese: 燦々(さんさん) (sansan)
• → Korean: 찬찬(燦燦) (chanchan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
燦	燦
さん Jinmeiyō	さん Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 燦燦 – see the following entry.

【燦々さんさん】 [adjective] brilliant, bright Alternative spellings 粲々, 粲粲

(This term, 燦燦, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)